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KickStarter Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders - PnC Incline
- Thread starter Jaesun
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Why isn't this funded yet FFS!
minhta
Nupixo Games
minhta
Nupixo Games
Hi all, Detective Di is now 70% funded on Kickstarter with 6 days left! Please support or spread the word if you like what you see. Thanks!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1114977637/detective-di-the-silk-rose-murders
Last couple days - unfreeze your wallets, punks!
Mar 25 2015
82% funded with 36 hours to go! Plus a brand new screenshot
Hi everyone!
It's been a great day so far, as our final surge continues to push us closer and closer to our funding goal! At present, we're at 82%, but we still have a day and a half left to spread the word and raise awareness about this great adventure of ours. We hope you join us in that effort! Our team is truly grateful for all the support and encouragement we've received from backers from all around the world. Your generosity has touched our hearts and motivates us to work even harder--thank you!
Now let's make this thing a reality!
TANG NOIR
For those of you still hungry for more content, we have a little something for you in the form of a brand new screenshot! This is a particularly significant location, as it showcases the offices of the justice department (imbued in a noirish smokiness). What you see in the screenshot is only the main room of a much larger compound which houses an interrogation room, a small library, and an external courtroom (among others).
This "police station" compound houses many rooms helpful to your investigation.
As always, art at this stage is work in progress, so let us know what you think. Cheers!
Dammit! This better get funded!!!!
If it makes a difference, don't forget that the pledge levels are rated in Canadian dollars! So that $15 level is only about $12 USD.
kazgar
Arcane
Wonder if its worth opening up another 100 early birds (err late birds?) which would almost get em over the line, but I assume it would actually mean 100 $15 tier people would probably just drop the $5 difference.
In for 15 mapledollars.
In for 15 mapledollars.
minhta
Nupixo Games
Thanks so much everyone!
We're now at 89% with 20 hours to go... sooo close...
We're now at 89% with 20 hours to go... sooo close...
MRY
Wormwood Studios
Have you asked Dave Gilbert at WEG to tweet about it? I've tried drumming up support among the WWS fans, but Dave has a much bigger platform, and you specifically mention Blackwell among your influences, so he might be able to push you over the line.
minhta
Nupixo Games
kazgar
Arcane
Do it, so close, so close!
kazgar
Arcane
over $17k with 2 hours to go!
hooray for late rushes, wonder where the money came from.
hooray for late rushes, wonder where the money came from.
Modron
Arcane
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Some norwegian threw a grand at it right as it pretty much as it hit the funding mark, the rest was just a post funded rush or people waking up in the US who knows.
minhta
Nupixo Games
We made it! Was a close call, but in the end everything worked out.
Thank you for all the amazing support!
Thank you for all the amazing support!
Not much to see here, but it's good to know that the wheels are turning!
kazgar
Arcane
Got my wallpaper, woo!
Update #18
Feb 12 2016
Year of the sino sleuth
Greetings fellow adventurers, and happy lunar new year!
In this slightly overdue Kickstarter update, we’d like to highlight some of the cool happenings of our little indie game project over the last couple of months. It’s sometimes hard to actually write these updates as we often find ourselves just grinding away, not really seeing anything noteworthy in the slow-burn process that is game development.
However, we have achieved a number of key milestones -- along with some minor setbacks -- that I think are worth sharing at this point in time. So, without further ado, here we go!
The game engine
This has been a point of contention behind the scenes for a little while. When I first started researching point-and-click adventure game development 2+ years ago, Adventure Game Studio was the de facto game engine for many indie developers. In fact, when we first launched the Kickstarter, AGS was a big piece of the puzzle. But at its core was always a vital Achilles heel, which was its inability to easily (or even natively) support platforms other than Windows PC. But we didn’t believe that to be a big problem, after all, we knew we needed to scope the project realistically, so we made no allusions about reaching for a big multi-platform release. So, the fact that we couldn’t do it wasn’t a big deal, right?
Well, not so fast. Last November, I decided to give Adventure Creator for Unity another try (we had heard of it, but none of us had experience with Unity, and AC was still relatively new). I detected a surge in its popularity, and I felt compelled to try out the 90-minute official tutorial by its creator Chris Burton. The results were marvelous.
This is a short clip of the game running on my Android phone. Pretty cool right? This export feature is supported right out of the box -- so even I can't mess it up! Awesome.
After a few internal meetings to discuss the idea of an engine change, we decided to make the leap. This meant we had to reintegrate some of the early scenes in the game, which would set us back a few weeks, but in the end I really do think this move will help give the game a better chance to succeed – not to mention prop up our viability as a studio moving forward.
It’s important to note that if we did decide to release on additional platforms, it would most definitely be a staggered release schedule where the main PC/Mac debut precedes any other platforms by many months. But overall, it’s exciting to know that this technology fits our long-term needs so well.
Awesome press coverage
Recently, I was approached by Marcus Tsui, IGN Asia correspondent and founder of the newly launched adventure game website PixelHunting.net, to do a special video piece as well as an interview about Detective Di. Marcus is a great guy, and he’s doing awesome work, so I was happy to oblige.
Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
How did the initial idea for the game’s plot come about? What drew you to Di Renjie?
As a native Cantonese speaker (I’m originally half-Chinese, half-Vietnamese), I’ve been watching Hong Kong television and movies since I was very young, so when Tsui Hark—one of my favorite directors—announced in 2010 that he was doing a Detective Dee movie, I immediately took notice. Even though I had read a few of the Judge Dee books by Robert van Gulik some years before, it never really occurred to me that the character could have such wide appeal.
That sort of reignited my interest in Di Renjie. And of course the whole “Sherlock Holmes of Ancient China” thing was an appealing notion to me. I joke about it now, but ultimately I found it helpful to tap into comparisons to the famous Victorian detective. The parallels are readily identifiable.
You can read the full article, as well as watch the excellent companion video, here:http://pixelhunting.net/sino-sleuth/
Cross-country move
So this part of the update veers into more personal territory. As is the case with any major endeavour in life, circumstances are sometimes dictated to us – as opposed to the other way around.
For mostly personal reasons, my wife and I decided to move from Montreal to Vancouver this past year (we settled into our new apartment in August). Since there isn’t really a "protocol" as to what to talk about in these updates, I was hesitant to bring this up previously, but the truth is this transition did affect the schedule I had set. (For those not familiar with the size of Canada, that’s roughly a 5000 km move.)
All in all, I think the move was a good one for my family, and while I wish I hadn’t lost any time working on the game, I think the experience helped me realize how important the project was to me, and how determined I was to make sure I would get back on track.
Looking ahead
At this point, some of you may be wondering, what does this all mean for the final release date? Well, it’s fair to say that we’ve had our ups and downs in the past several months, but at this point, I can honestly say that things have settled into a nice groove. Now that the engine questions have been settled, it’s just a matter of doing the work, one piece of artwork, one bit of audio, one line of code at a time.
Adventure Creator in action -- it truly is a great tool.
My hope is that we still launch before the coming summer, but honestly, we’re trying to make the very best game we can, and if that means pushing the launch to a fall window, I believe that will be worth it.
Thanks for reading, and a very happy year of the monkey to all!
- Minh Ta
Lead Designer
Here's an update from a few months ago:
May 9 2016
A marathon, not a sprint
Hello beloved adventure gamers,
First off, boy, does time fly by quickly! Just like that, another couple of months have flown by. We’ve been keeping quite busy and have a few tidbits to share, so let’s jump right in.
Kickstarter rewards
We’re very happy to announce that we will be sending out a number of rewards to our Kickstarter backers starting this June. Physical rewards that will be going out are the special edition t-shirt and the printed poster. If you’ve changed your address since we collected it some months ago, please update your Kickstarter profile and we will receive notification.
We are also prepping for the “creative” tiers which will involve backer input (name a character, design a puzzle/character, etc). Those of you who are in that category, we’ll be reaching out in June as well.
Other rewards, such as the soundtrack and the artbook (digital or printed), will only be available near or at release of the game itself (for obvious reasons).
The music
Speaking of the music, I thought I’d take a moment to highlight the work that is being done in this department. Since music is the only part of the game that I don’t have a direct hand in producing myself, it’s always very exciting for me to hear the latest amazing track from our super-talented composer Andrea Giachini.
So far, Andrea has already completed several tracks. I’ve been tempted to share one of these tracks here, but my fear is that hearing something now would dilute its impact when you hear it for the first time in-game. In fact, even the names of the tracks themselves collectively reveal a fair bit about the narrative that it supports. I’d be curious to see if any of you have had any experience with this on other Kickstarters.
All in all, the progress on this front has been excellent, and we’re very excited about this aspect of the game. To hear other music composed by Andrea, click here to check out his SoundCloud page.
The prologue
If you’re looking for a clear marker for the progression and realization of the promises behind this project, this news will surely tickle your fancy: the prologue is almost ready for beta testing! As many of you know, a playable prologue was promised as an add-on during our Kickstarter campaign. Although this chapter of the game is an integral part of the full release, this add-on was meant to be not only a reward for those who wanted to play the game early, but also a way for us to gather feedback at a critical juncture in development. Stay tuned for more on that!
Iconography
And finally, we talk… icons. Yep, those lovely little things we interact with hundreds of times a day without ever noticing. In this case, we got our beloved adventure game interaction icons for point, move, use, talk, and look. It took me a while to land on the design of these, but I’d love to hear your feedback!
With that we close out this latest edition of “what’s new in the world of Detective Di.” Hope to see you next time!
Cheers,
Minh Ta
Lead Designer
... and here's today's secret backer update. Shhh!
Oy, this looks really cool and i cannot believe it never popped into my radar at all till now
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